Fitness influencer Jillian Michaels said this week that she decided to leave the state of California because of how insane it has become with many of its extremist Left-wing policies. Michaels told Sage Steele this week on “The Sage Steele Show” that she holds all the cards in “woke victimology poker” and even she thinks Democrats in the state have “gone way too far.” “I grew up here. I’m a woman. I’m a gay woman. My mom’s a Jew. My dad’s an Arab. I have a black kid. And believe it or not, my son is half Latin, even though he doesn’t look like it,” she said. “I hold a million cards in your game of woke victimology poker. And when I leave California, maybe you’ve lost your f***ing mind. Just maybe! When you have me running from home, maybe it’s gone way too far.” She said the laws that are being passed in the legislature and signed into law by far-Left Governor Gavin Newsom are “absolutely f***ing mind boggling.” “In relation to crime, protecting our kids, like, we’re decriminalizing everything, which arguably I would probably be okay with, but we’re not regulating any of it,” she said. “So it’s like, okay, you’re gonna decriminalize sex work, but only so women can loiter on the streets, not to keep them safe, not to have them pay taxes, not to make them, you know, regularly check for STDs, not to take away the pimps out of the equation.” She specifically slammed the state for backing highly controversial and dangerous transgender procedures for minors. “The fact that a 12-year-old child can be put on off-label cancer drugs to irreparably change their body,” she said. “If my son came to me and said, ‘Mom’ — or my daughter — ‘I think I’m trans,’ I’d say, okay, you know, like, you want to dress this way, you want me to call you whatever the heck you want, dress, fine. Explore it. I love you. I’m cool, do you as long as we’re safe, but we’re not changing your body until it’s fully developed. I’m sorry. Conversation’s over. Can’t get a f***ing tattoo!” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP WATCH: I LOVE the state of California, but it’s a disaster. A self-inflicted disaster ?. Hundreds of thousands of residents have moved away over the last few years, including Cali native @JillianMichaels Listen to this: New episode: https://t.co/cDUg8uFnGz#sagesteeleshow pic.twitter.com/DJrIxcqK9Q — Sage Steele (@sagesteele) June 12, 2024

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Anti-Biden social-media accounts shared video of Joe Biden turning around and seemingly wandering off at the G-7 summit, and the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni worked to turn him around like Jill Biden does. The pro-Biden media were furious that the "Murdoch Media" was spreading this clip mocking the "Meander In Chief." (That was the New York Post headline.) The "mainstream" crew pro-Biden media acts like a journalistic Secret Service, protecting the reputation of Democrats from a negative narrative.  MSNBC's Morning Joe struck its usual Downward Facing Dog yoga pose, attacking "cheap fakes" and "vicious lies," as if the video was fake news: "Even critics were saying that he did a strong job, very good job representing the United States,” they claimed. This is the same program where Scarborough said "F-you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden -- intellectually, analytically -- is the best Biden ever!" The Stelteresque reporters at the Daily Beast had the headline "White House Rips Desperate Murdoch Press Over Deceptive Biden Video." They were just promoting the tweets of press aide Andrew Bates and going after this idea that Murdoch media – like the Wall Street Journal article on Biden Slipping – are pushing fake news that Biden’s a geezer doing too much geez-ing On NBC Friday morning, White House reporter Gabe Gutierrez shared the news that Pope Francis would meet with President Biden, who he described as a "devout Catholic" NBC missed this story from The Washington Post: "Biden presses to keep reproductive rights in G-7 agreement." The story began:  President Biden, whose reelection campaign is centered on mobilizing voters on abortion rights, has been waging a behind-the-scenes battle here to ensure that abortion access and reproductive rights are part of a global agreement among the world’s leading democracies. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a hard-line conservative, has been intent on changing language that was included in last year’s Group of Seven communiqué to exclude mentions of abortion or reproductive rights, according to officials familiar with the negotiations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters. In the Trump years, anonymous sources trashed Trump in the liberal papers. In the Biden years, anonymous sources are used to help underline re-election campaign objectives.  Finally, we discuss Pope Francis meeting with a gaggle of comedians, including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock, and...Whoopi Goldberg. These are not "devout Catholics." The Catholic League had the receipts.  Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts: 

In retrospect, season two of "True Detective" didn't have a chance. When it debuted in 2014, Nic Pizzolatto's moody, supernatural-tinged police procedural was clearly the product of a lone auteur given unusual freedom; the time-jumping structure and metaphysical preoccupations were like nothing anyone had seen on TV. But what made it an instant sensation was the unexpected chemistry of its two leads. As Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey cuts the character's nihilistic despair and paranoia with his trademark stoned detachment, allowing him to deliver all of that "time is a flat circle" philosophizing without getting too ponderous. [The protgonists] struggle to harness their own demons in order to defeat the kinds of monsters that emerge when man's lust for power and sexual gratification remains unchecked. Woody Harrelson's Marty Hart is a suitably exasperated foil to Cohle's passenger-seat existentialist, bringing some much-needed humor to a series in danger of overwhelming the viewer with its relentless focus on murder and child rape. As the pressure of the investigation brings each partner's flaws to the surface, they turn on each other. It's a credit to Harrelson and McConaughey that the fate of their strained partnership creates as much suspense as the identity of the killer the two men stalk. In the end, the show earns an unlikely and quite memorable redemption. "True Detective" season two also offers a kind of redemption at the end, but it comes as a much steeper price. And there is just as much if not more darkness to endure before you get there. It's no wonder viewers were reluctant to take the trip, correctly reasoning that even seasoned pros like Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn would be unable to recapture that McConaughey/Harrelson magic. But season two has a subtler, slower pull. Farrell plays Ray Velcoro, a detective for the Los Angeles-adjacent municipality of Vinci who does work for Vaughn's local crime lord, Frank Semyon. Velcoro is divorced and alcoholic, with a semi-estranged son, who may or may not be the product of his wife's rape more than a decade earlier. Semyon helped Velcoro track down the rapist and have his revenge, a favor that now leaves Velcoro in his debt. Semyon now needs Velcoro to scare off pesky reporters looking too closely at the deal that will help him go legit, leaving drugs and gambling behind for the more respectable grift of kickbacks and government fraud. When VInci's corrupt and sexually depraved city manager turns up dead, his eyes burnt out with acid and with a gaping shotgun wound to the crotch, Semyon's deal (into which he has sunk his life savings) is in jeopardy. The murder investigation becomes a joint effort involving Velcoro; Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch); the California Highway Patrol officer who found the body; and Ventura County Sherrif's Office CID agent Antigone Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams). We follow their progress along with Semyon's efforts to salvage his future, with Velcoro providing the link between the two. Vaughn's portrayal of Semyon is downbeat and realistic, with traces of the actor's earlier wisecracking persona ("A Mexican standoff with actual Mexicans," he marvels during one tense confrontation with rivals. "That's one for the bucket list"). He's ruthless, but only because his path from childhood poverty and abuse to head of a modest but thriving criminal enterprise required it. He treats his underlings like family and desperately wants to have a child with his loving wife and trusted adviser Jordan (Kelly Reilly, later to appear on "Yellowstone"). In their struggle to conceive they consider adoption; Jordan wins her husband over to the idea by framing it as a way of redeeming Frank's own tortured childhood. Each of season two's central quartet grapples with fatherhood in some way. Woodrugh, who never knew his father and grew up parenting his feckless, drunken mother, tries to overcome his deep ambivalence toward marriage after his girlfriend's unexpected pregnancy. Velcoro tends to his own father, an embittered, retired LAPD detective from the pre-Rodney King era, while attempting to protect and guide his bullied, insecure son. Bezzerides maintains a spiky exterior (and an arsenal of concealed knives) while numbing herself with casual sex, unwilling to face a childhood trauma enabled by her New Age guru father's inattentive parenting. These personal struggles take place against a backdrop of vast corruption; they struggle to harness their own demons in order to defeat the kinds of monsters that emerge when man's lust for power and sexual gratification remains unchecked. This is the special duty of a father. The season's nine episodes unflinchingly depict the many ways fathers can fail at this duty — and the way the repercussions of that failure can reverberate through generations and across communities. What gives "True Detective" season 2 its lasting power is the unfashionable emphasis it puts on the sacrifice inherent to fatherhood. All good fathers give something of themselves; some fathers give it all.

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